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- the present invention relates to a laminated film comprising at least two thin films of LnBa2Cu3O 7-x wherein Ln is Y or one of lanthanoids except Pr and Tb which attracts attentions as a superconductor exhibiting superconductivity around 90 K and at least one thin film of Y2O3 which is interposed between a pair of the thin films of LnBa2Cu3O 7-x , and a method for producing such laminated film.
- Such laminated film will find various applications such as Josephson tunneling junctions or other electronic devices.
- a thin film of a single crystal of superconductive LnA2Cu3O 7-x wherein Ln is the same as defined above and A is at least on alkaline earth element having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface and its preparation are disclosed and claimed in U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 247,261 filed on September 16, 1988 or EP-A 0 308 869.
- a laminated film comprising a pair of thin films of LnA2Cu3O 7-x superconductor and an insulating thin film which is interposed between the pair of the super conductor films.
- a thin film of a single crystal of LnA2Cu3O 7-x superconductor having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface is formed by the above method, then a suitable insulating thin film is formed on the LnA2Cu3O 7-x thin film, and finally a second thin film of LnA2Cu3O 7-x superconductor is formed on the insulating thin film by the above method.
- the laminated film When the laminated film is used as an electronic device, it is important that a pair of the LnA2Cu3O 7-x thin films between which the insulating thin film is interposed have good superconductive characteristics.
- One object of the present invention is to provide a laminated film comprising at least two superconductive thin films and at least one insulating thin film interposed between said superconductive thin films.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a laminated film comprising at least two superconductive thin films and at least one insulating thin film interposed between said superconductive thin films.
- a laminated film comprising at least two thin films of single crystal LnBa2Cu3O 7-x wherein Ln is Y or one of lanthanoids except Pr and Tb having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface and at least one continuous thin film of Y2O3 which is has the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface and is interposed between a pair of said thin films of single crystal LnBa2Cu3O 7-x .
- a method for producing a laminated film of the present invention comprises evaporating Y or Y2O3 at such rate that the Y2O3 film is formed at a rate not larger than 2 ⁇ /sec. in the presence of oxygen under pressure of not higher than 10 ⁇ 4 Torr., depositing Y2O3 on a film of a single crystal LnBa2Cu3O 7-x formed on a substrate for deposition at a substrate temperature of 600 to 800°C and forming a thin film of a single crystal LnBa2Cu3O 7-x on the Y2O3 film.
- the thin film of single crystal LnBa2Cu3O 7-x having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface is prepared by the method described in the above U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 247,261 the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference and EP-A 0 308 869, which method basically includes following two manners:
- a substrate should be a single crystal having its (001) plane of which is parallel with its surface.
- the single crystal to be used as the substrate are single crystals of SrTiO3, MgO, CoO, NiO and the like.
- the substrate is preferably heated to 500°C or higher, preferably 520°C or higher.
- the vacuum deposition vessel is firstly evacuated to high vacuum of, for example, about 10 ⁇ 6 Torr. and then a small amount of the oxygen gas is continuously supplied towards the substrate from a distance close to the substrate to increase the pressure of oxygen at the substrate to 10 ⁇ 2 to 10 ⁇ 1 Torr. while an interior gas in the vessel is continuously exhausted from a suitable part of the vessel to keep the background pressure at 10 ⁇ 5 to 10 ⁇ 3 Torr. in the vessel except near the substrate.
- the reason why the upper limit of the background is selected to be 10 ⁇ 3 Torr. is that Ln, Ba and Cu in the evaporation sources are constantly evaporated without deterioration of the metals in the evaporation sources.
- the lower limit of 10 ⁇ 5 Torr. is the minimum gas pressure for generating the plasma. If the plasma is not utilized, this lower limit is not technically important.
- the reason why the oxygen gas pressure is increased only near the substrate in the above step is that Cu is not oxidized to Cu+2 if the oxygen gas pressure is lower than 10 ⁇ 3 Torr.
- the plasma can be generated by placing a high frequency coil between the evaporation sources and the substrate and oscillating it between the coil and the vessel wall at high frequency. While the plasma generation is preferred since the reaction activities of the evaporated metals are increased, it may have some drawbacks such that the plasma attacks the desired material which is being formed if the plasma energy is too high. Therefore, an electric power for generating the plasma is preferably in the range from 50 to 500 W, more preferably around 100 W.
- Ln and Ba are evaporated by electron beam and Cu is evaporated by electric resistance heating.
- the atomic ratio of Ln, Ba and Cu is adjusted to about 1:2:3 by controlling the electric power according to results of preliminary experiments. Namely, in the preliminary experiment, how much metal Ln, Ba or Cu is evaporated and how much oxide Ln2O3, BaO or CuO is formed by the specific electric power applied to each evaporation source per unit time are measured by a film thickness measuring device installed in the vacuum evaporation vessel near the substrate for each metal.
- the Y2O3 thin film has the (001) plane in the direction parallel with its surface, and the whole of the film is in the single crystal form.
- good quality LnBa2Cu3O 7-x having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface can be epitaxially grown, and the LnBa2Cu3O 7-x thin films on the both sides of the Y2O3 film have good superconductive transition.
- the conditions should be suitable controlled.
- the thin film which is being formed is to be kept under vacuum. If the thin film is exposed to air, its surface may be contaminated with materials in air so that the laminated thin film having desired properties may not be produced.
- a vacuum vessel having a diameter of 750 mm and a height of 1000 mm was evacuated to 10 ⁇ 6 Torr. by an oil diffusion pump.
- a surface polished single crystal piece of MgO was used with a (001) plane forming a substrate surface (10 mm x 20 mm).
- the substrate was placed in the vacuum vessel and heated to 650°C heater and kept at this temperature with a Kanthal heater.
- An oxygen injection nozzle was inserted in a doughnut shaped oxygen diffusion chamber surrounding the periphery of the substrate, and oxygen injected from the nozzle was once diffused in the chamber and then supplied from slits provided on an inner periphery wall of the diffusion chamber over the substrate surface.
- the gas pressure was increased to 10 ⁇ 2 to 10 ⁇ 1 Torr. only near the substrate, while the pressure near the evaporation sources which were placed apart from the substrate was increased to about 10 ⁇ 4 Torr.
- Y, Ba and Cu were evaporated from independent evaporation sources at such evaporation rates that the atomic ratio of Y:Ba:Cu was 1:2:3 on the substrate.
- Y, Ba and Cu were evaporated at rates of 1 ⁇ /sec., 2.3 ⁇ /sec. and 1.7 ⁇ /sec., respectively.
- a high-frequency coil was placed, and the high frequency was applied at 100 W so as to generate oxygen plasma which activated the evaporated metals and accelerated the reactions on the substrate.
- Y and Ba were evaporated by electron beam, and Cu was evaporated by resistance heating.
- the evaporation conditions were as follows:
- a metal ingot (purity: 99.9 %) (50 g) was used and placed in a crucible cooled with water.
- the metal was evaporated by the application of an electron beam at an acceleration voltage of 5 KV and a filament current of 400 mA.
- a metal ingot (purity: 99.9 %) (50 g) was used and evaporated by the application of the electron beam at an acceleration voltage of 5 KV and a filament current of 100 mA.
- metal Cu particles particles size of 2 to 3 mm, purity of 99.9999 %) (10 g) were charged and heated by the application of electric current through the filament at 10 V, 30 A.
- a part of a surface of the YBa2Cu3O 7-x thin film was masked with manipulating a masking device which was beforehand installed in the vacuum deposition vessel while keeping vacuum in the vessel.
- the substrate temperature was kept at 650°C, the amount of oxygen supplied over the substrate was decreased and the oxygen pressure in the evaporation vessel was kept in the order of 10 ⁇ 5 Torr. Thereafter, Y was evaporated at a rate of 1 ⁇ /sec. to form a Y2O3 thin film having a thickness 60 ⁇ .
- a second thin film of YBa2Cu3O 7-x was formed under the same conditions as above to a film thickness of 1200 ⁇ . Again, it was confirmed that the second YBa2Cu3O 7-x thin film epitaxially grew with its (001) plane in the direction parallel with its surface and was substantially a single crystal.
- the obtained laminated thin film consisting of the YBa2Cu3O 7-x thin films 1, the Y2O3 thin film 2 and the MgO substrate 3 was assembled. Then, its resistance-temperature characteristic was measured and temperature dependence of a dI/dV-V curve was examined through measurement of quasiparticle tunneling. The results are shown in Figs. 2 and 3.
- the bixbyite system Y2O3 thin film was used as the insulating film in the above example, it is confirmed that the LnBa2Cu3O 7-x thin film can be formed on a cubic system oxide such as MgO and ZrO2 or a perovskite system oxide such as BaTiO3 and SrTiO3.
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- The present invention relates to a laminated film comprising at least two thin films of LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x wherein Ln is Y or one of lanthanoids except Pr and Tb which attracts attentions as a superconductor exhibiting superconductivity around 90 K and at least one thin film of Y₂O₃ which is interposed between a pair of the thin films of LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x, and a method for producing such laminated film.
- Such laminated film will find various applications such as Josephson tunneling junctions or other electronic devices.
- A thin film of a single crystal of superconductive LnA₂Cu₃O7-x wherein Ln is the same as defined above and A is at least on alkaline earth element having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface and its preparation are disclosed and claimed in U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 247,261 filed on September 16, 1988 or EP-
A 0 308 869. - It is contemplated to apply the above method in the preparation of a laminated film comprising a pair of thin films of LnA₂Cu₃O7-x superconductor and an insulating thin film which is interposed between the pair of the super conductor films. For example, on a suitable substrate, a thin film of a single crystal of LnA₂Cu₃O7-x superconductor having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface is formed by the above method, then a suitable insulating thin film is formed on the LnA₂Cu₃O7-x thin film, and finally a second thin film of LnA₂Cu₃O7-x superconductor is formed on the insulating thin film by the above method.
- However, it is not sure whether or not a laminated film which can be used in the electronic devices is produced. In particular, according to a kind of the insulating thin film or a method for forming the insulating thin film, it is difficult to predict how the LnA₂Cu₃O7-x thin film is influenced.
- When the laminated film is used as an electronic device, it is important that a pair of the LnA₂Cu₃O7-x thin films between which the insulating thin film is interposed have good superconductive characteristics.
- One object of the present invention is to provide a laminated film comprising at least two superconductive thin films and at least one insulating thin film interposed between said superconductive thin films.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a laminated film comprising at least two superconductive thin films and at least one insulating thin film interposed between said superconductive thin films.
- According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a laminated film comprising at least two thin films of single crystal LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x wherein Ln is Y or one of lanthanoids except Pr and Tb having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface and at least one continuous thin film of Y₂O₃ which is has the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface and is interposed between a pair of said thin films of single crystal LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x.
- According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for producing a laminated film of the present invention, which method comprises evaporating Y or Y₂O₃ at such rate that the Y₂O₃ film is formed at a rate not larger than 2 Å/sec. in the presence of oxygen under pressure of not higher than 10⁻⁴ Torr., depositing Y₂O₃ on a film of a single crystal LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x formed on a substrate for deposition at a substrate temperature of 600 to 800°C and forming a thin film of a single crystal LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x on the Y₂O₃ film.
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- Fig. 1 schematically shows a device comprising the laminated thin film of the present invention,
- Fig. 2 shows resistance-temperature characteristic of the laminated thin film prepared in Example, and
- Fig. 3 shows temperature dependency of the dI/dV-V curves obtained through measurement of quasiparticle tunneling.
- The thin film of single crystal LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface is prepared by the method described in the above U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 247,261 the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference and EP-
A 0 308 869, which method basically includes following two manners: - (a) Ln, Ba and Cu are evaporated from independent evaporation sources in an atomic ratio of about 1:2:3 on a substrate in a vacuum deposition vessel while supplying an oxygen gas from a distance close to the substrate to form an oxygen-containing atmosphere having a relatively high pressure at the substrate.
- (b) Ln, Ba and Cu are evaporated from independent evaporation sources in an atomic ratio of about 1:2:3 on a substrate in a vacuum deposition vessel and plasma is generated in the vessel while supplying an oxygen gas from a distance close to the substrate to form an oxygen-containing atmosphere having a relatively high pressure at the substrate.
- To form the LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film by the above manner (a) or (b) in the single crystal form having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface, a substrate should be a single crystal having its (001) plane of which is parallel with its surface. Examples of the single crystal to be used as the substrate are single crystals of SrTiO₃, MgO, CoO, NiO and the like.
- To obtain the LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film substantially the whole of which is in the single crystal form, the substrate is preferably heated to 500°C or higher, preferably 520°C or higher.
- The preparation of LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film of the present invention will be explained further in detail.
- The vacuum deposition vessel is firstly evacuated to high vacuum of, for example, about 10⁻⁶ Torr. and then a small amount of the oxygen gas is continuously supplied towards the substrate from a distance close to the substrate to increase the pressure of oxygen at the substrate to 10⁻² to 10⁻¹ Torr. while an interior gas in the vessel is continuously exhausted from a suitable part of the vessel to keep the background pressure at 10⁻⁵ to 10⁻³ Torr. in the vessel except near the substrate. The reason why the upper limit of the background is selected to be 10⁻³ Torr. is that Ln, Ba and Cu in the evaporation sources are constantly evaporated without deterioration of the metals in the evaporation sources. The lower limit of 10⁻⁵ Torr. is the minimum gas pressure for generating the plasma. If the plasma is not utilized, this lower limit is not technically important.
- The reason why the oxygen gas pressure is increased only near the substrate in the above step is that Cu is not oxidized to Cu⁺² if the oxygen gas pressure is lower than 10⁻³ Torr.
- The plasma can be generated by placing a high frequency coil between the evaporation sources and the substrate and oscillating it between the coil and the vessel wall at high frequency. While the plasma generation is preferred since the reaction activities of the evaporated metals are increased, it may have some drawbacks such that the plasma attacks the desired material which is being formed if the plasma energy is too high. Therefore, an electric power for generating the plasma is preferably in the range from 50 to 500 W, more preferably around 100 W.
- Ln and Ba are evaporated by electron beam and Cu is evaporated by electric resistance heating.
- During evaporation of the metals by the above described evaporation means, the atomic ratio of Ln, Ba and Cu is adjusted to about 1:2:3 by controlling the electric power according to results of preliminary experiments. Namely, in the preliminary experiment, how much metal Ln, Ba or Cu is evaporated and how much oxide Ln₂O₃, BaO or CuO is formed by the specific electric power applied to each evaporation source per unit time are measured by a film thickness measuring device installed in the vacuum evaporation vessel near the substrate for each metal. Thereby, a relationship between an evaporation rate of each metal and the applied electric power is established and then the electric power to be applied to each evaporation source during formation of the thin film of the LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x single crystal is determined.
- To epitaxially grow Y₂O₃ on the single crystal LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface, it may be contemplated to form the Y₂O₃ film by evaporation Y or Y₂O₃ under the same conditions as those for the formation of the LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film.
- The experiments by the present inventors revealed that, if the conditions are the same as those for the formation of LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin layer, Y₂O₃ cannot be homogeneously grown in the atomic layer unit. Under the above conditions for the formation of LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film, the Y₂O₃ layer grows discontinuously, and only at the thickness of 500 Å or larger, a continuous Y₂O₃ thin layer can be formed. To form the continuous Y₂O₃ film, the oxygen pressure is kept not higher than 10⁻⁴ Torr., the substrate temperature is kept at a temperature of 600 to 800°C, and the deposition rate does not exceed 2 Å/sec. As is seen from the results of below described Example, when the deposition conditions are suitable, the Y₂O₃ thin film has the (001) plane in the direction parallel with its surface, and the whole of the film is in the single crystal form. On such Y₂O₃ film, good quality LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x having the (001) plane in the direction parallel with the film surface can be epitaxially grown, and the LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin films on the both sides of the Y₂O₃ film have good superconductive transition.
- In each step of the method of the present invention, the conditions should be suitable controlled. In addition, the thin film which is being formed is to be kept under vacuum. If the thin film is exposed to air, its surface may be contaminated with materials in air so that the laminated thin film having desired properties may not be produced.
- The present invention will be illustrated by following Example.
- A vacuum vessel having a diameter of 750 mm and a height of 1000 mm was evacuated to 10⁻⁶ Torr. by an oil diffusion pump.
- As a substrate, a surface polished single crystal piece of MgO was used with a (001) plane forming a substrate surface (10 mm x 20 mm). The substrate was placed in the vacuum vessel and heated to 650°C heater and kept at this temperature with a Kanthal heater.
- An oxygen injection nozzle was inserted in a doughnut shaped oxygen diffusion chamber surrounding the periphery of the substrate, and oxygen injected from the nozzle was once diffused in the chamber and then supplied from slits provided on an inner periphery wall of the diffusion chamber over the substrate surface. The gas pressure was increased to 10⁻² to 10⁻¹ Torr. only near the substrate, while the pressure near the evaporation sources which were placed apart from the substrate was increased to about 10⁻⁴ Torr.
- Metals Y, Ba and Cu were evaporated from independent evaporation sources at such evaporation rates that the atomic ratio of Y:Ba:Cu was 1:2:3 on the substrate. For example, Y, Ba and Cu were evaporated at rates of 1 Å/sec., 2.3 Å/sec. and 1.7 Å/sec., respectively.
- Between the substrate and the evaporation sources, a high-frequency coil was placed, and the high frequency was applied at 100 W so as to generate oxygen plasma which activated the evaporated metals and accelerated the reactions on the substrate.
- Under the above conditions, a thin film of YBa₂Cu₃O7-x having a thickness of 1200 Å was formed on the substrate.
- In this step, Y and Ba were evaporated by electron beam, and Cu was evaporated by resistance heating. The evaporation conditions were as follows:
- A metal ingot (purity: 99.9 %) (50 g) was used and placed in a crucible cooled with water. The metal was evaporated by the application of an electron beam at an acceleration voltage of 5 KV and a filament current of 400 mA.
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- A metal ingot (purity: 99.9 %) (50 g) was used and evaporated by the application of the electron beam at an acceleration voltage of 5 KV and a filament current of 100 mA.
- In an alumina crucible around which a tungsten filament was wound, metal Cu particles (particle size of 2 to 3 mm, purity of 99.9999 %) (10 g) were charged and heated by the application of electric current through the filament at 10 V, 30 A.
- A part of a surface of the YBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film was masked with manipulating a masking device which was beforehand installed in the vacuum deposition vessel while keeping vacuum in the vessel.
- Then, the substrate temperature was kept at 650°C, the amount of oxygen supplied over the substrate was decreased and the oxygen pressure in the evaporation vessel was kept in the order of 10⁻⁵ Torr. Thereafter, Y was evaporated at a rate of 1 Å/sec. to form a Y₂O₃ thin film having a
thickness 60 Å. - In the above steps, reflecting high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) photographs of the YBa₂Cu₃O7-x at a thickness of 1200 Å and the Y₂O₃ thin film at thickness of 3, 6, 9, 21 and 60 Å were taken to confirm that the YBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film epitaxially grew with its (001) plane in the direction parallel with its surface and was substantially a single crystal, and that the Y₂O₃ thin film epitaxially grew continuously with its (001) plane in the direction parallel with its surface and was close to a single crystal.
- After masking the peripheral part of the Y₂O₃ thin film, a second thin film of YBa₂Cu₃O7-x was formed under the same conditions as above to a film thickness of 1200 Å. Again, it was confirmed that the second YBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film epitaxially grew with its (001) plane in the direction parallel with its surface and was substantially a single crystal.
- As shown in Fig. 1, the obtained laminated thin film consisting of the YBa₂Cu₃O7-x
thin films 1, the Y₂O₃thin film 2 and theMgO substrate 3 was assembled. Then, its resistance-temperature characteristic was measured and temperature dependence of a dI/dV-V curve was examined through measurement of quasiparticle tunneling. The results are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. - Although the bixbyite system Y₂O₃ thin film was used as the insulating film in the above example, it is confirmed that the LnBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin film can be formed on a cubic system oxide such as MgO and ZrO₂ or a perovskite system oxide such as BaTiO₃ and SrTiO₃.
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